$LASTQUERY Variable

Contains the value of the last search query.

The last query is extracted from the last loaded URL. The URL of each page is searched for common parameter names used to hold query value. These include:

query=
&q=
?q=
SearchString=
keyword=
keywords=
search=
?qu=
&MT=

This means that if you open a page such as:



http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=trellian



The keyword passed in the q= parameter will be stored in the $LASTQUERY variable.